The international energy producing and consuming mammoths signed yesterday a partnership agreement towards energy efficiency. The EU, USA, UK, Russia, China, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, but also, Brazil and Mexico adhered to the document facilitating an international high level policy discussion, during the G8 Summit in Rome.

The agreement was initiated by the EU in June 2007, during Heiligendamm Summit and was finalized in 2008, during the Japanese G8 presidency. The countries signing this year’s agreement hold as much as 80% of the world’s supply and demand of energy.

Alina Kartman – alina.kartman@rogbc.org